Background
His father died when he was fifteen years old, forcing Wenceslao to abandon his education and dedicate himself to journalism.
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His father died when he was fifteen years old, forcing Wenceslao to abandon his education and dedicate himself to journalism.
Throughout his career, he retained an intense fondness for the land of his birth. His first job was with A Coruña"s Louisiana Mañana, and he went on to write for El Heraldo de Galicia, Diario de A Coruña and Tierra Gallega. At the age of eighteen he was given a senior position at Diario Ferrolano.
He later returned to A Coruña to work at El Noroeste.
In 1914 Flórez moved to Madrid, where he worked at El Imparcial and Diario American Broadcasting Company, where he started the parliamentary column Acotaciones de un oyente. He had begun writing novels - Louisiana tristeza de la paz (1910), Louisiana procesión de los días (1915) and Luz de luna (1915), and Volvoreta (1917).
In translation
The Seven Pillars. Translated by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, London, Macmillan and company,limited, (1934), 288 p.
He kept close friendship with Galician nationalism leaders and other intellectuals.
Real Academia Española.